BURGLAR Paul Newman raided six houses shortly after he was released from prison for carrying out two knifepoint robberies.

And, despite being given the chance of a deferred sentence for the break-ins the 27-year-old failed to keep to the conditions so has been jailed for two years.

Heroin user Newman was sentenced to three years behind bars in November 2001 after robbing two people in Swindon and was let out on licence after serving half his sentence.

But he burgled six houses and three commercial premises between April and July last year.

He first raided a house on Tydeman Street on April 21 with an accomplice, a judge at Swindon Crown Court was told.

Sarah Regan, prosecuting, said on July 9 he burgled a house at Deansfield, Cricklade, after smashing a window but was caught after blood was found.

As a result of these offences he was recalled to prison from August last year until March this year,

During that period of custody he appeared at the Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to the two burglaries and asked for seven others to be taken into consideration.

Newman, of no fixed address has 79 previous convictions, including a house burglary in 1996.

Jailing him for two years Recorder Ian Lawrie said "You need to appreciate that domestic burglaries are serious offences."

The three-year term was imposed in November 2001 after Newman pleaded guilty to carrying out two knifepoint robberies in the town.

Along with an accomplice, Newman grabbed £200, a mobile phone and gold chains from Simon George, near the Duke of Edinburgh pub, in Gorse Hill, on September 27, 2001.

The second robbery was carried out on October 1 in Oxford Road, in which Newman stole £240.